The European Union has selected the ROBOX proposal as H2020 project. This project has 19 partners and will be coordinated by DSM Geleen. The proposal "ROBOX: Expanding the Industrial Use of Robust Oxidative Biocatalysts for the Conversion and Production of Alcohols" took first place in the selection.

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Manchester Institute of Biotechnology Open Day 2016 The Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) organises and contributes to a range of outreach, public engagement and widening participation events throughout the year in accordance with the University of Manchester’s social responsibility remit. The latest of these was the institute’s 5th A-Level Open Day which, this year, featured…

http://www.chi-peptalk.com/biocatalysts-conference/ Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s Second Annual Biocatalysis and Bio-Based Chemical Production Biocatalysis, Enzyme and Metabolic Engineering, and Synthetic Biology January 9-10, 2018 | Hilton San Diego Bayfront | San Diego, CA Advances in protein engineering, the advent of new chemistries and custom-made biocatalysis are leading to broader industrial enzyme across a range of…

http://www.pnoconsultants.com/events/bioeconfin-2017/ ROBOX will be part of this event. If you are interested in how your bioeconomy innovations can take off, scale and get funded, join PNO at the first BIOECONFIN event on 22 November in Brussels. PNO Consultants, a key partner in innovation and funding, gathers top innovators and bioeconomy experts to guide you through…

ROBOX technology for your application? The H2020 project ROBOX aims to widen the industrial application of enzymatic bio-oxidation processes to new and also larger volume and lower price markets. The project has now been running for 2½ years and some successful demonstrations have already been carried out, which means that the consortium is increasingly focussing…

Medieval Site Hosts Modern Cutting-Edge Science! The idyllic surroundings of the 14th century Carthusian monastery Certosa di Pontignano, the official conference center of the Universitá degli studi di Siena (Italy), hosted an international Summer School on Biocatalysis as a Key Enabling Technology from 3 – 6 October 2017. Chaired by Professor Fessner from the Technische…

RUG made a significant contribution to this paper on enzyme improvement Manipulating the stereoselectivity of the thermostable Baeyer–Villiger monooxygenase TmCHMO by directed evolution Abstract UAB have led the publication of a collaborative ROBOX paper An immobilized and highly stabilized self-sufficient monooxygenase as biocatalyst for oxidative biotransformations Full Paper UNIMAN publish a new paper on…

A video explaining more about biocatalysis and enzyme technology from ROBOX partner – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob-XWuXyNXI To find out more about ACIB go to http://www.h2020robox.eu/partners/acib

An article from Chemical and Engineering News in which directed evolution yields an enzyme that oxidizes alkenes in a process called anti-Markovnikov alkene oxidation that is difficult to achieve because the reaction is energetically unfavorable https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i41/Enzyme-beats-catalysts-oxidation-game.html

A novel product – supported P450 enzymes – LENTIKATS now offer an immobilized form of cytochrome P450-BM3 (CYP450-BM3) into polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) matrix, in the form of Lentikats Biocatalyst that is effective tool for use and repeated usage of a CYP450 in industrial scale for hydroxylation of alkenes by cell-free extract (CFE) route – click on link…